Comments in refutation of pretensions advanced for the first time, and statements in a recent work "The Stirlings of Keir and their family papers"

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antiquary, Mr Ramsay of Auclitertyre, from the Keir Inventory, but wMch the Keir
Performance suspiciously agaiu neitlier owns nor ventures to give from the original,
which is carefuUy kept in retentis — Evident misrepresentation there as to adultery
at the time — Probably used with more to coerce or frighten Janet of Cadder — who
at any rate could not have been guilty of such alleged and pretended crime — into
the designs of the j^arties, with other api>rehended obvious remarks, both in reference to
the document (3^ /ac/e, to the lady and her situation, . . . 98-101
CHAPTER III.
CONSULTATIONS AND LEGAL STEPS OF PARTIES WITH THE FINALE.
Minutije of legal procedm-e by the Drumpellier family in support of their Lettyrand Cadder
rights and status — Including especially, at the outset, strenuous exertions of Keir for
himself, and to thwart and oppose them — But, after much fmitless painful scrutiny and
research, only evoking and conjuring vq> a ghastly and mysterious new personage, John
Stirling of Bankeir, the true (though long-secreted) Keir representative, to the surprise
and dismay of the Keii' conclave — At length, as has been seen, desisted from — Explana-
tion as to the said John, his status and peculiar history — The Keir advisers next induce
Glorat legally and openly to oppose Drumpellier, though still acting clandestinely, and
supplying him with the " sinews of wai-" — Drumpellier, however, in April 1818, suc-
cessfully carries his service up to Lettyr, the main and more direct object, in the face of
every opposing obstacle, but precluded from going into the merits of the Cadder ques-
tion by a mere objection of Glorat in point of form, who, as well as Keir, dreaded such
discussion — Drumpellier, however, here also eventually successful and unopposed,
gained the full victory, Glorat even, in his tm-n, having abandoned the field — The case
now, after the expiry, too, of the longest prescription of forty years and more, thus
foreclosed to all against Dnimpellier — Together with substantiation of other material
facts formerly stated — Including gross misrepresentations in the Keir work against
him and Janet of Cadder — With general remai-ks, &c., . . , 102-130
CHAPTER TV.
Is not Robert Stirling of Letter, the Drumpellier ancestor, identical with Robert Stirling,
proved younger brother of William Stirling of Cadder in 1492 ? — What is required to
fix this point 1 — The inconsistent, and, as might be thought, suspicious mode of giving
the Cadder writs and evidence in the Keir compilation — The transcendaut and chival-
rous Cadder ci'est in the above year, now unduly conjoined with an inferior one over
the Keir shield of arms — Refutation again of the attack made in the same work upon
the original and exclusive right of the Jihulafi Sirivelienses to their armorial buckles
— Palpable misrepresentation there of the antiquity of the Keir arms, not yet proved
to have been borne prior to 1448 — Further remarks on the subject of those of the
northern Cawdors (including another misrepresentation there), who, in respect to their
incidental armorial device, may be in pari casu with the Pelhams in England — With
additional illustrations — And what may be the appropriate Stirling of Cadder and
Keir bearings — That of the former preferable in just heraldry — While their represen-
tative was styled Stirling " of that Ilk," confii-ming their being chiefs of the Stirlings,
in aopordanoe with the Keir Performance, and a style now vested in Drumpellier aa
their heir, ... . . . . . 131-161
CHAPTER V.
KEIR PRETENSIONS, AND PEDIGREE.
Preliminary remarks, and exposition of undue assumption of the Stirling and Cadder status,
as chief of the name, by Keir — With gross misrepresentations, &c. in the Keir Per-
formance — Including usurpation there of the old Cadder crest, thi-ough which a fine
and escheat of the work to the Crown is incurred by an Act of Parliament — The Keir